- You heard it here first, folks. Nvidia's launching yetanother 30 series GPU that nobody's going tobe able to find in stock. But it's not all bad because for the handful of gamers who do get their handson this thing at MSRP, it is going to be one heckof a gameful Christmas, because, spoiler alert, the 3060 Ti is hella fast. And I'll tell you all about it, but first I'll tell youabout our sponsor, TeamGroup. TeamGroup's Dark Z Alpha DDR4 memory is compatible with Ryzen 5,000 and you can win a computerthat uses this ram at TeamGroup's Christmasgiveaway at the link below.
(energetic electronic music) Scalpers aside, I'd be lying if I said I'm not super excited about these cards. At $399, the MSRP, the value they represent is substantial for anyone with a PC who's looking for a console alternative,
especially when you consider that, according to Nvidia anyway, it's faster than an RTX 2080 Super. And you know what, on paper anyway, I think I believe them.
It's got more than double the previous gen RTX2060 Super's CUDA cores, and at just a 25-watt increasein rated power consumption. In fact, the core count is only about20% lower than the RTX 3070 with specs that
areotherwise pretty comparable. Same eight gigs of GDDR6memory, same bandwidth, and just a few less ROPs. You'd expect that to translate into roughly 20% loweroverall performance. To put that theory to the test we've gathered not only theRTX 3060 Ti and RTX 2080 Super,
but the next steps upfor both of these GPUs and Team Red's latest and greatest to see just how far four Benjamins,theoretically, will get you. Ooh. Good thing we didn't pay for ours because Christmas wouldhave been completely ruined. We've spoken with Nvidia and our card is almostcertainly defective, but we're gonna keep going anyway since the performance numbers look okay and we can't get another one here in time.
We'll just have to skip some of our tests. For traditional gaming, "Shadow of the Tomb Raider"places the RTX 3060 Ti firmly behind the 3070 and the 2080 Ti, although worryingly for AMDit's ray-trace performance roughly matches their $569 RX 6,800 and completely embarrasses it in fully path traced "Minecraft RTX" where the differencesbetween the RTX cards are actually slimmer thanI would have expected.
"Wolfenstein: Youngblood"in traditional rasterizing has our higher end cardspulling away from the 3060 Ti, although we weren't able to test ray-tracing performance here due to that (clears throat)problem with our review sample. Microsoft Great Equalizer,or "Flight Simulator",
makes short work of the 3060 Ti, relegating it to console FPS status, unless you're preparedto reduce your resolution or your visual quality. And finally "CS: GO" has the 3060 Ti nearly beating out the 2080 Ti, albeit with slightly worse frame pacing if the 95th
percentileminimums are anything to go by. So it looks pretty greatfrom a gaming standpoint. As for productivity, the RTX 3060 Ti I just straightup dropkicks the last gen, even the 2080 Ti, with performance that issurprisingly close to the 3070,
especially with the optics render at sub 20 seconds for the BMW test. And the spanking gets even more thorough as we move on to V-Ray and OctaneBench with only the RTX offresults for the latter dipping below the RTX 2080 Ti. SPECviewperf finally has the 2080 Super trading blows with the 3060 Ti,
with 3ds Max and Maya pullingoff wins for the new card thanks to the extra CUDA cores and SolidWorks seeing better performance out of the previous gen thanksto its higher clock speed. Physically the founder's edition looks pretty much exactlylike the RTX 3070, just with a pallet swap, slight color change,
and that's from the cooler right down to the new 12-pin connector, which (sighs) I find alittle bit frustrating. The biggest reason for which is that both the 3070 and 3060 Ti are now using this specialsnowflake connector that they have no practicalneed for whatsoever. I mean it's not the end of the world. The adapter is still included in the box so it's not like it'sgonna affect your ability to plug the card into your power supply.
I just don't reallyknow what the point is. Maybe Nvidia hopes that ifenough cards have this connector, traditional PCI express power cables will eventually disappear. So far, nobody seemsto be taking the bait.
Throughout our testing, core clocks though were extremely stable pushing past two gigahertzunder most circumstances to overtake the RTX 3070's clock speeds, and this seems to be thanks in large part to the fewer CUDA cores and,of course, the reused cooler, which is just as potent. Our 3060 Ti founders hit a peak of just 71 degrees throughout our test,
which implies that there'sa lot of thermal headroom that remains to be exploited. Average and maximum fan speeds were also roughly the samebetween these two cards,
suggesting that unlessthere's bad thermal compound, the 3060 Ti must be drawing asimilar amount of power too.
Which it is. Sitting at or below 200watts most of the time with momentary spikes ashigh as about 230 watts, the 3060 Ti is just a bitlower than the RTX 3070 and surprisingly prettyclose to the RTX 2080 Super.
I mean, Ampere is well known by now for sucking back that juice, but it's still surprising tosee this kind of power draw in a 60 class card.
And I'm sure it's gonnacause a headache or two for at least some of you who are trying to upgrade a prebuilt PC or who skimped on yoursupply way back in the day. Again though, it's not like a crazy amount and it's nothing that asingle eight pin connector couldn't have handled. Now before our conclusion,
I want to address theelephant in the room. Using the MSRP to review aproduct like this when we know that it's unlikely to beavailable at that price probably seems prettydisingenuous to some of you. And I can see why people get mad about it. But the truth is there is
with the information that we have at the time. I don't know how much crazy people are gonna pay to scalpers on eBay,
and I don't know how longthese shortages are gonna last. But the thing is this videois gonna be up forever. Long after these cards drop back down to earth-like prices.
So my best bet then is to just review it from inside the bubble of howthe world is supposed to work and then offer the caveatthat you might need to wait in order to get the valuethat we're talking about here.
So with that in mind then, the conclusion. Despite the power consumption, the 3060 Ti at $399 is gonna occupy a verypopular spot on shelves from both mid-range gamers and budget conscious professionals alike. It's a great looking product.
It's fast, it's affordable, it's got a ton of killer features thanks to its RT cores and tensor cores which unlock Nvidia'sgamer-oriented AI goodness like RTX Voice and AutomaticBackground Removal. But all of that stuff together means that it's gonna sellout basically instantly. Just like I did to our sponsor.
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If you want a little bitmore GPU in your life, maybe go check out ourreview of the RX 6800 series, AMD's response to NVIDIA's Ampere. It really is better than I expected.
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